| 6 | Members of Staff | ||
| 9 | Post-Doctoral Researchers | ||
| 18 | PhD Students |
Publications
2011
Resonant Properties of Sessile Droplets; Contact Angle Dependence of the Resonant Frequency and Width in Glycerol/Water Mixtures
J.S. Sharp
Soft Matter, 8 (2), 399 (2012)
A single centre water splitting dye complex adsorbed on rutile TiO2(110): Photoemission, x-ray absorption and optical spectroscopy
M. Weston, T.J. Reade, A.J. Britton, K. Handrup, N.R. Champness, and J.N. O’Shea, J. Chem. Phys., 135, 114703 (2011)
Factors affecting the formation of insulin amyloid spherulites
M.I. Smith, V. Foderàb, J.S. Sharp, C.J. Roberts, A.M. Donald
Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 89, 216 (2012)
Manipulating Si(100) at 5 K using qPlus frequency modulated atomic force microscopy: Role of defects and dynamics in the mechanical switching of atoms
A. Sweetman, S. Jarvis, R. Danza, J. Bamidele, L. Kantorovich, and P. Moriarty
Phys. Rev. B, 84, 085426 (2011)
Measuring Si–C60 chemical forces via single molecule spectroscopy
C. Chiutu, A. Stannard, A.M. Sweetman, and P. Moriarty
Chem. Commun., 47, 10575 (2011)
Haptic-STM: A human-in-the-loop interface to a scanning tunneling microscope
L.M.A. Perdigão and A. Saywell
Rev. Sci. Instrum., 82, 073704 (2011)
Coherent hypersonic closed-pipe organ like modes in supported polymer films
A.V. Akimov, E.S.K. Young, J.S. Sharp, V. Gusev, and A.J. Kent
Appl. Phys. Lett., 99, 021912 (2011)
Fluorination of the diamond surface by photoinduced dissociation of C60F48
K.J. Rietwyk, M. Wanke, H.M. Vulling, M.T. Edmonds, P.L. Sharp, Y. Smets, Q.-H. Wu, A. Tadich, S. Rubanov, P.J. Moriarty, L. Ley, and C.I. Pakes
Phys. Rev. B, 84, 035404 (2011)
Automated probe microscopy via evolutionary optimization at the atomic scale
R.A.J. Woolley, J. Stirling, A. Radocea, N. Krasnogor, and P. Moriarty
Appl. Phys. Lett., 98, 253104 (2011)
Contact Angle Dependence of the Resonant Frequency of Sessile Water Droplets
J.S. Sharp, D.J. Farmer, and J. Kelly
Langmuir, 27 (15), 9367 (2011)
Tuneable Mechanical Properties in Low Molecular Weight Hydrogels
L. Chen, J. Raeburn, S. Sutton, D.G. Spiller, J. Williams, J.S. Sharp, P.C. Griffiths, R.K. Heenan, S.M. King, A. Paul, S. Furzeland, D. Atkins and D.J. Adams
Soft Matter, 7 (20), 9721 (2011)
Effects of Substrate Constraint on Crack Pattern Formation in Thin Films of Colloidal Polystyrene Particles
M.I. Smith and J.S. Sharp
Langmuir, 27(13), 8009 (2011)
Infrared dielectric mirrors based on thin film multilayers of polystyrene and polyvinylpyrrolidone
J. Bailey and J.S. Sharp,
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 49(10), 732 (2011)
Toggling Bistable Atoms via Mechanical Switching of Bond Angle
A. Sweetman, S. Jarvis, R. Danza, J. Bamidele, S. Gangopadhyay, G. A. Shaw, L. Kantorovich, and P. Moriarty
Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 136101 (2011)
[This work was also covered in Physics World Blog, Science NOW, and Sixty Symbols (Extended Version). ]
Graphene Formation by Decomposition of C60
L.M.A. Perdigão, S.N. Sabki, J.M. Garfitt, P. Capiod, and P.H. Beton
J. Phys. Chem. C, 115 (15), 7472 (2011)
Dimerization of Tri(4-bromophenyl)benzene by Aryl-Aryl Coupling from Solution on a Gold Surface
J.C. Russell, M.O. Blunt, J.M. Garfitt, D.J. Scurr, M. Alexander, N.R. Champness, and P.H. Beton
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133(12), 4220-4223 (2011)
Dewetting-mediated pattern formation in nanoparticle assemblies
A. Stannard
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23, 083001 (2011)
Charge transfer dynamics of model charge transfer centres of a multicenter water splitting dye complex on rutile TiO2(110)
M. Weston, A.J. Britton and J.N. O’Shea
Journal of Chemical Physics, 134, 054705 (2011)
Injection of High-Amplitude Picosecond Acoustic Pulses into Polymer Films
P. Walker, A.V. Akimov, J.S. Sharp and A.J. Kent
Chinese Journal of Physics, 49(1), 506, (2011)
Vernier templating and synthesis of a 12-porphyrin nano-ring
M. C. O’Sullivan, J. K. Sprafke, D. V. Kondratuk, C. Rinfray, T. D. W. Claridge, A. Saywell, M. O. Blunt, J. N. O’Shea, P. H. Beton, M. Malfois,and H. L. Anderson
Nature, 469, 72-75 (2011)
2010
Guest-induced growth of a surface-based supramolecular bilayer
M.O. Blunt, J.C. Russell, M.C. Gimenez-Lopez, N. Taleb, X. Lin, M. Schröder, N. R. Champness, and P.H. Beton
Nature Chemistry, 3, 74-78 (2011)
Dilatancy in the flow and fracture of stretched colloidal suspensions
M.I. Smith, R. Besseling, M.E. Cates, and V. Bertola
Nature Communications 1, 114 (2010)
Particle velocimetry inside Newtonian and non-Newtonian droplets impacting a hydrophobic surface
M. I. Smith & V. Bertola
Experiments in Fluids, 50 (5), 1385 (2011)
Discrimination between basal cell carcinoma and hair follicles in skin tissue sections by Raman micro-spectroscopy
M. Larraona-Puy, A. Ghita, A. Zoladek, W. Perkins, S. Varma, I.H. Leach, A.A. Koloydenko, H. Williams and I. Notingher
Journal of Molecular Structure, 993, 57 (2011)
Micro-textured surfaces with gradient wetting properties
K.R. Langley and J.S. Sharp
Langmuir 26 (23), 18349-18356 (2010)
Entropically stabilized growth of a two-dimensional random tiling
A. Stannard, M. O. Blunt, P. H. Beton, and J. P. Garrahan
Phys. Rev. E 82, 041109 (2010)
An image from this paper was selected for the PRE Kaleidoscope for October 2010
Thin Film Polymer Photonics: Spin cast distributed Bragg reflectors and chirped polymer structures
J. Bailey and J. S. Sharp
Eur. Phys. J. E 33, 41-49 (2010)
Coherent elastic waves in a one-dimensional polymer hypersonic crystal
P.M. Walker, J.S. Sharp, A.V. Akimov and A.J. Kent
Appl. Phys. Lett. 97(7), 073106 (2010)
Microstructural, chemical bonding, stress development and charge storage characteristics of Ge nanocrystals embedded in hafnium oxide
S. Das, R. K. Singha, S. Manna, S. Gangopadhyay, A. Dhar and S. K. Ray
Journal of Nanoparticle Research 13(2), 587 (2011)
Resolution Frontiers
P. Moriarty
Physics World 23(11), 29 (2010)
Public Science – Public Good?: A dialogue
T. Kealey and P. Moriarty
Nanotech. Perceptions 6, 75 (2010)
Development of Raman Imaging System for time-course imaging of single living cells
A. Zoladek, F. Pascut, P. Patel, and I. Notingher
Spectroscopy 24 (1-2), 131-136 (2010)
Raman spectroscopy methods for detecting and imaging supported lipid bilayers
C. S. Sweetenham and I. Notingher
Spectroscopy 24 (1-2), 113-117 (2010)


